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Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Deep Learning (DL) algorithms are currently applied to a wide range of products and solutions. DL training jobs are highly resource demanding and they experience great benefits when exploiting AI…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Federica Filippini , Danilo Ardagna , Marco Lattuada , Edoardo Amaldi , Michele Ciavotta , Maciek Riedl , Katarzyna Materka , Paweł Skrzypek , Fabrizio Magugliani , Marco Cicala

As AI workloads drive increases in datacenter power consumption, accurate GPU power estimation is critical for proactive power management. However, existing power models face a scalability bottleneck not in the modeling techniques…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Kyungmi Lee , Zhiye Song , Eun Kyung Lee , Xin Zhang , Tamar Eilam , Anantha P. Chandrakasan

The energy consumption and carbon footprint of Artificial Intelligence (AI) have become critical concerns due to rising costs and environmental impacts. In response, a new trend in green AI is emerging, shifting from the "bigger is better"…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Tiago da Silva Barros , Frédéric Giroire , Ramon Aparicio-Pardo , Joanna Moulierac

The world has recently witnessed an unprecedented acceleration in demands for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence applications. This spike in demand has imposed tremendous strain on the underlying technology stack in supply chain,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Paolo Faraboschi , Ellis Giles , Justin Hotard , Konstanty Owczarek , Andrew Wheeler

The substantial increase in AI model training has considerable environmental implications, mandating more energy-efficient and sustainable AI practices. On the one hand, data-centric approaches show great potential towards training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Mohammed Alswaitti , Roberto Verdecchia , Grégoire Danoy , Pascal Bouvry , Johnatan Pecero

Recent research shows large-scale AI-centric data centers could experience rapid fluctuations in power demand due to varying computation loads, such as sudden spikes from inference or interruption of training large language models (LLMs).…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-12 Mariam Mughees , Yuzhuo Li , Yize Chen , Yunwei Ryan Li

As research and deployment of AI grows, the computational burden to support and sustain its progress inevitably does too. To train or fine-tune state-of-the-art models in NLP, computer vision, etc., some form of AI hardware acceleration is…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Dan Zhao , Siddharth Samsi , Joseph McDonald , Baolin Li , David Bestor , Michael Jones , Devesh Tiwari , Vijay Gadepally

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in applications forming multi-request workflows like document summarization, search-based copilots, and multi-agent programming. While these workflows unlock richer functionality, they also…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Md. Monzurul Amin Ifath , Israat Haque

To optimize large Transformer model training, both efficient parallel computing and advanced data management are indispensable. However, current methods often assume a stable and uniform training workload, neglecting data-induced…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Haoyang Li , Fangcheng Fu , Sheng Lin , Hao Ge , Xuanyu Wang , Jiawen Niu , Jinbao Xue , Yangyu Tao , Di Wang , Jie Jiang , Bin Cui

In recent years, large language models have achieved great success due to their unprecedented size. However, training these models poses a challenge for most researchers as it requires a substantial number of GPUs. To reduce GPU memory…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Haichen Huang , Jiarui Fang , Hongxin Liu , Shenggui Li , Yang You

Deep learning models undergo a significant increase in the number of parameters they possess, leading to the execution of a larger number of operations during inference. This expansion significantly contributes to higher energy consumption…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Dario Lazzaro , Antonio Emanuele Cinà , Maura Pintor , Ambra Demontis , Battista Biggio , Fabio Roli , Marcello Pelillo

Due to their highly parallel multi-cores architecture, GPUs are being increasingly used in a wide range of computationally intensive applications. Compared to CPUs, GPUs can achieve higher performances at accelerating the programs'…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Frédéric Magoulès , Abal-Kassim Cheik Ahamed , Alban Desmaison , Jean-Christophe Léchenet , François Mayer , Haifa Ben Salem , Thomas Zhu

Deep learning has become widely used in complex AI applications. Yet, training a deep neural network (DNNs) model requires a considerable amount of calculations, long running time, and much energy. Nowadays, many-core AI accelerators (e.g.,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Yuxin Wang , Qiang Wang , Shaohuai Shi , Xin He , Zhenheng Tang , Kaiyong Zhao , Xiaowen Chu

With the growing availability of large-scale datasets, and the popularization of affordable storage and computational capabilities, the energy consumed by AI is becoming a growing concern. To address this issue, in recent years, studies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Roberto Verdecchia , Luís Cruz , June Sallou , Michelle Lin , James Wickenden , Estelle Hotellier

As emerging deep neural network (DNN) models continue to grow in size, using large GPU clusters to train DNNs is becoming an essential requirement to achieving acceptable training times. In this paper, we consider the case where future…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Seo Jin Park , Joshua Fried , Sunghyun Kim , Mohammad Alizadeh , Adam Belay

We consider energy minimization for data-intensive applications run on large number of servers, for given performance guarantees. We consider a system, where each incoming application is sent to a set of servers, and is considered to be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Ajay Badita , Rooji Jinan , Balajee Vamanan , Parimal Parag

Deep learning models have revolutionized various fields, from image recognition to natural language processing, by achieving unprecedented levels of accuracy. However, their increasing energy consumption has raised concerns about their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Shreyank N Gowda , Xinyue Hao , Gen Li , Shashank Narayana Gowda , Xiaobo Jin , Laura Sevilla-Lara

Large language model (LLM) inference has become a dominant workload in modern data centers, driving significant GPU utilization and energy consumption. While prior systems optimize throughput and latency by batching, scheduling, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Can Hankendi , Rana Shahout , Minlan Yu , Ayse K. Coskun

Training large foundation models costs hundreds of millions of dollars, making deployment optimization critical. Current approaches require machine learning engineers to manually craft training recipes through error-prone trial-and-error on…

As AI-driven computing infrastructures rapidly scale, discussions around data center design often emphasize energy consumption, water and electricity usage, workload scheduling, and thermal management. However, these perspectives often…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Yuzhuo Li , Yunwei Li